With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade

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Documentary

Overview

Combining rare archival footage with interviews recorded forty years after the event, this documentary tells the story of the Women’s Emergency Brigade during the 1936–37 General Motors sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan. While national attention focused on the men occupying the factories, women—auto workers and the families of strikers—organized food supplies, picket lines, and public demonstrations that helped sustain the historic labor victory. The film highlights their long-overlooked role in the American labor movement.

Details

Status: Released
Release date: December 31, 1978
Original language: English
Spoken languages: English
Countries: United States of America
Production: Women's Labor History Film Projecta,New Day Films,Women's Labor History Film Project
Cast: Nellie Bessons Hendrix,Genora Dollinger,Mary Handa,Sybll "Teeter" Walke,Laura Hayward,Lillian Hatcher,Helen Hauer,Della Parrish,Babe Gelles
Director: Lorraine Gray
Producer: Anne Bohlen,Lorraine Gray,Lyn Goldfarb
Cinematography: Ting Barrow
Music: Steve Gray
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt0078501